Class Action Monitor

On a very general level, class action lawsuits involve a band of people in some capacity: A collective class, held together over the issue of a faulty product, suing a defendant, or a band of defendants, individual negligent companies, as an example, being sued by a single person. While most class action suits are filed for product liability claims, other case types end up in court, too, including shareholders suing for corporate fraud, workers, and residents over environmental disasters.

With a case, which may be filed in either federal or state court, class action has its pluses. Because a limited number of witnesses overlap, the trial process understandably moves along more efficiently, while the overall cost of litigation tends to be lower than for individual plaintiffs filing alone.

On the other hand, these types of cases also tend to have drawbacks. Before the class action even moves forward, the prosecuting group must be named as a class. Federal courts, as well, may conclude class actions if the defendants are state governments or officials or if the plaintiffs number less than {one hundred,100.

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